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Release Round-Up: Week of April 11

April 11, 2025 by The Second Disc | 1 Comment

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles available today! As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. The Vince Guaraldi Trio, Jazz Impressions of A Boy Named Charlie Brown: Expanded Edition (Fantasy/Craft) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Craft Recordings delivers a newly expanded edition of 1964’s Jazz Impressions of A Boy Named Charlie Brown, the first in a series of fateful collaborations between jazz pianist Vince Guaraldi and Charles M. Schulz’s lovable Peanuts characters. The 2CD set offers a fresh remaster of Guaraldi’s initial nine compositions devoted to Charlie Brown…

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Release Round-Up

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Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl

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Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, Rock, Soundtracks

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Andy Summers, Art Blakey, Kenny Burrell, Marian McPartland, Nellie McKay, Robert Fripp, Talking Heads, The Replacements, Vince Guaraldi

The Weekend Stream: May 25, 2024

May 25, 2024 by Mike Duquette | No Comments

Welcome to another edition of The Weekend Stream, The Second Disc’s review of notable catalogue titles (and some new ones, too!) making digital debuts. This week has another rare track by Prince, promo for the new Beach Boys documentary, a powerful new remix by a legendary diva and more! Prince, “Silver Tongue” (NPG/Legacy) (iTunes / Amazon) A third Musicology-era rarity has landed digitally, following “United States of Division” and “Magnificent.” “Silver Tongue” was a “virtual B-side” to “Call My Name” from the 2004 album, a rare co-write between The Artist and singer Nikka Costa, who…

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The Weekend Stream

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Digital Download, Digital Streaming

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Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks

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Dick Hyman, INXS, Mariah Carey, Marian McPartland, Peggy Lee, Prince, The Beach Boys

How My Heart Sings: Craft Recordings Readies New Career-Spanning Box for Bill Evans

April 13, 2021 by Joe Marchese | 1 Comment

Bill Evans would have earned his place in the jazz history books if only for his role on Miles Davis’ landmark 1959 set Kind of Blue. But the pianist-composer and modal jazz innovator recorded over 50 live and studio albums as a leader before his untimely death in 1980 at the age of just 51, leaving behind a legacy of some of the most beautiful jazz ever committed to tape. In addition to Davis, he also served as a sideman to musicians including Chet Baker, Cannonball Adderley, Charles Mingus, and Lee Konitz. …

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News

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Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl

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Jazz, Popular Standards/Vocal

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Bill Evans, Jim Hall, Kenny Burrell, Marian McPartland, Shelly Manne, Stan Getz, Tony Bennett